45% of Saudi Internet users now use AI

ChatGPT tops list of downloaded apps, women use AI tools more than men

Jul 19, 2026

#SaudiArabia #AIadoption - 45 percent of Saudi Arabia’s internet users now use AI tools, according to the Saudi Internet Report 2025 just released by the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST). Adoption skews toward women, at 52.8 percent versus 39.4 percent of men, and drops sharply with age, from 58.4 percent among 10-19 year-olds to just 14.8 percent among those aged over sixty. ChatGPT ranks as the most downloaded AI app in Saudi Arabia, followed by Google Gemini and DeepSeek, with the Kingdom’s own HUMAIN AI app rounding out the top ten.

SO WHAT? - Nearly half of Saudi Internet users now reach for an AI tool, most often to search for information, confirming that adoption has moved well beyond early experimentation into everyday habit. The gap between young and older users, and the fact that women use AI tools more than men, perhaps gives policymakers a clearer picture of where AI literacy campaigns need to focus next.

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Saudi Arabia’s Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) has published tis Saudi Internet Report 2025, finding that 45.2% of Saudi internet users have adopted AI tools, alongside average mobile data consumption of 53 GB per month, three times the global average.
Saudi Arabia recorded a median mobile internet download speed of 216 Mbps, placing it among the top five G20 countries for that indicator.
The report finds that AI adoption is higher among women (52.8%) than men (39.4%) among Saudi internet users.
The data also shows that adoption falls steadily with age. 58.4% use AI among 10-19 year-olds compared with 55.7% among 20-29 year-olds, decreasing to 27.4% among 50-59 year-olds and 14.8% among 60-74 year-olds.
ChatGPT is the most downloaded AI application in Saudi Arabia, followed by Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Microsoft Copilot; Saudi Arabia’s own HUMAIN AI app ranks tenth.
Information search is the leading use case for AI tools at 80.8%, followed by idea generation (40.1%), study and education (37.7%), and image, video or presentation creation (25.7%).
Work-related tasks (17.3%), writing (14.3%) and programming or technical tasks (13.5%) rank as the least common uses of AI among Saudi internet users.
61.3% of Saudi internet users spend seven hours or more online daily, and Saudi domain name registrations grew 18% annually, reflecting rising trust in the Kingdom’s online environment.

[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]

Source: Saudi Arabia CST